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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter.
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It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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To CACOR Members:
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Four CACOR members have volunteered to make occasional posts into our Breaking News listing.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: Earth Detox: How and why we must clean up our planet Time: Apr 12, 2023 Summary : Earth, and all life on it, are saturated with anthropogenic chemicals and wastes, in an event unlike anything in the previous 4 billion years. Each moment of our lives, from conception to death, we are exposed to thousands of substances, some lethal, …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Marianne Armstrong Topic: Supporting Climate Change Adaptation of Canada’s Built Environment Time: Apr 19, 2023 13:30 Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83467445798?pwd=d2hnNERaYmJXaDdNZm9LNDJjeDEzdz09 Meeting ID: 834 6744 5798 Passcode: 875611 Summary: Since 2016, the National Research Council in collaboration with Infrastructure Canada has been working to integrate climate change …
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One way you can still be useful when you are old Yoga at Johns Family Park, Kelowna Being an old retired guy with a decent pension means I have time on my hands to think and do things for others. Recently a dear friend was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 cancer and given months to live…. Obviously, this would cause …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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The Case for Capping Sea-Level Rise A More Tangible Way to Measure the Harm From Climate Change By Alice C. Hill and Rafe Pomerance | April 3, 2023 “Keep 1.5 alive.” For years, that phrase has been the rallying cry for climate advocates. Enshrined in the 2015 Paris climate accord, the 1.5-degree Celsius figure is the world’s aspirational limit for average global …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Leap, the leading platform for energy market access, today announced that it has joined the Virtual Power Plant Partnership (VP3). RMI, founded as Rocky Mountain Institute, launched the VP3 initiative in January 2023 to advance virtual power plant (VPP) solutions to help decarbonize the electricity sector. Through this collaboration, Leap will work closely with other leading energy technology companies, including …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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"Our research is concerned with sociobehavioral approaches to get the policy support to dramatically reduce emissions, by leaving fossil fuels in the ground, shifting to renewable energy, confronting extractivism and reducing consumption. We are currently interested in two main themes: From Skepticism to Belief. Skepticism comes in different flavors. While few US adults are skeptical about global heating, about 43% still …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope. Amy Goodman, investigative journalist, columnist, and author (1957)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review is a landmark study that was published on 30 October 2006. The Review concluded: (click preceding link for 4-page PDF summary) From the summary: "Using the results from formal economic models, the Review estimates that if we don’t act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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CACOR member Dr. N. Gass discussed the instability in the Caucasus region during the 1990s. The region was plagues by wars at the time and in subsequent decades. Link to | Peace in the Caucasus. Link to | 21st Century battles in the Caucasus.
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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Americans could save over 1 trillion dollars on gas alone under tough new car pollution rules that would require a massive shift to electric vehicles. That's according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, which on Wednesday proposed new emissions standards for cars, trucks and other light-duty vehicles. "By proposing the most ambitious pollution standards ever for cars and trucks, we are delivering on …
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Wow, this is mind-blowing! I've always been fascinated by Elon Musk's vision for the future, and this video perfectly explains how the Tesla Bot is a game-changer in THE master plan. Can't wait to see how the Tesla Bot revolutionizes industries. Thx for sharing! Population decline needs more robots to fill in.
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One thing the climate crisis underscores is that Homo sapiens are not primarily a rational species. When forced to make important decisions, particularly decisions affecting our economic security or socio-political status, primitive instinct and raw emotion tend to take the upper hand. This is not a good thing if the fate of society is at stake. Take “hope” for example. …
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Just Have A Think The fossil fuel industry received more than a TRILLION dollars in direct subsidies in 2022, and some say if the impacts on the climate and environment were factored in, that number would be nearly six times higher. But, if we take the subsidies away, asks the fossil fuel industry, then how will people be able to …
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What are the main points? Many argue, including the IPCC’s own press release, that we need to focus on the “narrowing window” for action to stay within 1.5˚C (2.7˚F) warming. We must keep hope alive and focus on cutting emissions steeply and fast. Of course, this is essential – but, in the clear-eyed words of The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert, “o imagine at …
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